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"Good," I say, only a fraction relieved My hands slide away from her biceps "You can’t tell anyone, okay? And because I was ordered by Isaac not to talk about it, I can’t tell you more than you already know"
That is a total lie Isaac never orderedhi to tell her anything else Because she knows that even ainst his orders since he’s Alpha I just hope she buys it I’m so unbelievably relieved that Zia isn’t the traitor; she was one of few that if it had turned out to be her, it would’ve seriously broken my heart, but still, I can’t confide in her about it Until we knoho the traitor is and after we trap it, only the five of us need to know the details I hate keeping things frohs and says, "Alright, alright I won’t say anything" She sht have you cleaning " She wrinkles her nose and looks up in thought "Or, I could iveto call in a pedicure"
"Fine Whatever," I say, having no ti downstairs"
Zia grabs ravelly "Why don’t you just let Rachel handle this?"
I jerk my arm away fro to distract et the strangest feeling that she doesn’t wantinto the basement
Chapter 16
GENNA OH NO…
I tear ainst the wall and I throw open the base two steps at a time as I fly down theirls who I recognize instantly as Rachel’s underlings One girl, known ht red hair and millions of freckles, puts up her hands to stop irl who helped Rachel set o
"You can’t go back there"
"Move out of my way," I deirls step in closer and I wait before aze off toward the back of the base repaired A band of light stretches across the dark floor and spreads out in a cone-shaped pattern It leads just around the rock here ure isit out every few seconds I hear Rachel’s veno and the familiar chains embedded in the wall as they clink and scrape across the floor And then a loud whap resonates through the air, followed by the crunching sound that only a crushed bone can h the six girls
The red-head grabs me by the back of the hair and my body instinctively whirls around at her My eyes shift black and I glare at her with all of the warningand all six of them back away to letthere in front of a body huddled on the floor against the rock wall I can s up into my nostrils and my pores and taste buds i," Rachel says with a wicked, hateful gleaave you perli to believe isn’t Genna, but Rachel ish the very thought of it is absurd "Isaac’s not here I do what the fk I want"
"Dria?" I hear a voice say weakly
The air is suddenly sucked fro so loud and so fast, but I can’t feel it My lungs feel solid and without breath, yet e I feel nauseous Before I have a chance toand buries it in ainst the wall and her battered body slue filling my head, my black claws protrude in the sath of the roo in my ears just as my claws spear Rachel’s shoulders and chest We crash into the wall and rotted wood fro splinters and falls around us as the foundation shakes and tre down on her face blow after bloody blow,hers in place beneath me I don’t have tiravity and sit with ainst the stone wall I just keep pounding her face withthe fury take control ofjust belowme back into the reality of ill happen if I don’t calive Rachel the upper-hand In seconds, I feel s out in front of me My back collides with a wooden bea the beam completely apart I crash down in a pile of old wooden crates and bicycle tires and vintage glass bottles Shards of thick glass prick and stab the backs of my arms and the palet up My body stings and burns as her razor-sharp claws slash away at ashes onhere!" Rachel shrieks between blows, each sending a hard ringing througharound inside my skull "You Weak Stupid Bitch!" she yells out and this tie to push her off me
Her body skids across the floor and I leap up so fast that it’s as though she had never hit e at her Both of us roll across the basement floor in abut her raven hair crowding rab her by the back of her hair and swingher to the floor
Just as my skull starts to split and the rest of ins to take hold, I feel a set of hands slip underneath my arms from behind and pull me off of Rachel
It’s Harry And now more than ever I appreciate his power to calm my emotions, to help me tame my beast and keep it inside I feel his unnaturally warm hands onsensation engulfs my body "Calm," I hear his voice say inthis as covertly as possible so that no one else in the roo